[PATCH 2/2] ARM: fix the note about dcache lazy flushing for SMP systems
Saeed Bishara
saeed at marvell.com
Thu May 12 14:33:03 EDT 2011
Signed-off-by: Saeed Bishara <saeed at marvell.com>
---
arch/arm/mm/flush.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
index f1b7998..e632363 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
@@ -275,7 +275,8 @@ void __sync_icache_dcache(pte_t pteval)
* kernel cache lines for later. Otherwise, we assume we have
* aliasing mappings.
*
- * Note that we disable the lazy flush for SMP.
+ * Note that we disable the lazy flush for SMP configurations where
+ * the cache maintenance operations are not automatically broadcasted
*/
void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
{
--
1.7.1
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